Awards: Tony Lothian Winner

The Biographers' Club announced that John Woolf has won the £2,000 (about $2,680) Tony Lothian Prize, which recognizes "the best proposal for an uncommissioned first biography," for Queen Victoria's Freaks: The Performers at Buckingham Palace.

Also on this year's shortlist were The Boxing Parson of Killarney by Lin Rose Clark, Enter a Cloud: A Book on/with/for/after W.S. Graham by Oli Hazzard, Willibald’s Journey by Susan Kelly, and Every Other Inch a Gentleman: The Lives of Michael Arlen by Philip Ward.